Pipe tool



Patented Se t. 23, 1941 uNrrEo v azses s 4 Claims.

My invention relates to an improved device especially designed for smokers use.

An important object of my invention is to provide a device for smokers use, constructed so that the parts that contact the pipe and tobacco juices may not contact soilable articles, such as clothing or the like and soil the same.

Another object of my invention is to provide a device of the character described that is provided with a tobacco tamping portion adapted to be accommodated by varying sizes of pipe bowls, and to compact the tobacco contained therein in an even and concise manner.

Yet another object of my invention is to provide a device for smokers use that is provided with a tobacco piercing member adapted to break the cake that frequently forms in the bottom of the bowl adjacent the stem.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device for smokers use that is neat in appearance, efiicient in operation and inexpensive to manufacture.

Other objects and advantages of my invention will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the drawing, forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure l is a longitudinal sectional View of a device embodying my invention,

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the tobacco tamping portion, showing the same associated with a pipe,

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the tobacco piercing member, illustrating its association with a pipe, and

Figure 4 is an exploded View, partly in section and partly in elevation, of another embodiment of my device.

In the drawing, wherein for the purpose of illustration, is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 designates a substantially cylindrical shaped hand-piece formed at its ends with recesses 6 and 1 respectively, and a longitudinally extending bore 8 communicating at its ends with the said recesses 6 and I.

Immovably positioned within the recess 6, and terminating flush with the end face 9 of the said hand-piece 5 is an internally screw-threaded bushing Hi. In fixed screw-threaded engagement with the recess 1 is a bushing H which projects substantially from the end face 12 of the said hand piece 5, and immovably carries within the said projecting portion a hollow cylindrical an end wall I4, and whose inner chamber l5 registers with the longitudinal bore 8 of the hand piece 5.

The numeral l6 designates a hollow cylindrical 5 cover member, adapted to accommodate the tube l3 therein, terminating in a spherically curved end wall I! and having an internally screwthreaded bushing l9 fixedly positioned in the end l8 thereof and adapted to removably screwbushing H.

The cap 28 is of paraboloidal formation and has a shank 2| projecting from the face 22 and adapted to be screw-threadedly received within the bushing Hi. Secured within, and projecting from the shank 2| is an elongated, relatively slender stem 23, which extends forwardly thereof through the base 8 and into the hollow tube 13 but terminating a substantial distance from the end wall l4 thereof.

When it is desired to use the device as a tobacco tamper, the end cover I6 is removed and the tube I3 is inserted in the bowl of the pipe as illustrated in Figure 2. The formation of the said tube l3 will also reduce unnecessarily rapid cake formation on the sides of the bowl by pushing the particles of partly burned tobacco and tobacco tar which adhere to the sides of the bowl into the burning portion of the tobacco causing them to be burned to ash. Inasmuch as my device is adapted to be carried by the user, the end cover l3 will prevent the particles of tobacco and tar from contacting the clothing and soiling the same.

The paraboloidal cap 29 may be removed from the hand-piece 5, and the stem 23 introduced through .the stem of the pipe to remove any 0bstruction which may be lodged in the inlet end of the pipe stem, as best illustrated in Figure 3.

The form of my invention illustrated in Figure 4 comprises a cylindrical hand piece 24 having a vertically projecting shank 25 at the end 2'6 and a recess 21 in the end 28, and with a longitudinally extending bore 29 communicating with 45 said recess and extending through said shank.

Immovably attached to said shank is a hollow tube 30 which terminates in a transverse end wall 3|. Located at approvimately its middle and preferably formed integrally therewith is a.

clip spring 32 which functions to frictionally hold the hollow end cover 33 against casual displacement.

The paraboloidal shaped cap 34 has a tubular shank 35 extending from the face 36 thereof,

tube I3 which terminates at its outer end with which is adapted to be received within the rethreadedly engage the projecting portion of the cess 21 of the hand-piece 24 and to be frictionally secured therein by the clip spring 31.

, tubular shank 35 and the bore 29, and terminates within the hollow tube 30.

Inasmuch as the operation and use of the second form of my invention is so similar to the form already described, no further explanation is thought to be necessary.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention, herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and that various changes in the size, shape and arrangement of parts may be resorted to, without departing from the spirit of my invention, or the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I clairn:

l. A device comprising a hand-piece having a longitudinally extending bore therethrough, a tobacco tamper comprising a hollow tube of a lesser diameter than the hand piece having one end terminating in a transverse end wall and the opposite end thereof attached to one end of the said hand piece and opening into the said longitudinally extending bore, a cover member of the same cross-sectional size and shape as the hand piece enclosing the hollow tube and detachably connecting with the said hand-piece, a cap removably attached to the end of the handpiece opposite that end carrying the said cover member, and an elongated pointed stem securely attached to said Icap and projecting through the longitudinally extending bore of the said hand piece and terminating within the hollow tube, said hand-piece and said hollow tube comprising a shield therefor.

2. A device comprising a hand-piece having a recess in one end and a shank at the opposite end thereof, and with a longitudinally extending bore communicating with said recess and extending through said shank, a hollow tube terminating at its outer end in a transverse end wall and having its opposite end thereof immovably secured to the shank of the said handpiece, and communicating interiorly thereof with the said bore of the hand-piece, a cover for said hollow tube, spring means attached to said hollow tube to fri ctionally hold said cover thereon, a cap portion having a shank, said shank adapted to be received within said recess of said handpiece, spring means attached to said shank and adapted to frictionally engage the side wall of the recess and effectively hold the shank therein, and an'elongated stem securely fastened to said cap portion projecting through the shank of the said cap portion and the longitudinally extending bore of the hand piece and terminating within the said hollow tube.

3. A device comprising a body portion having recesses at its ends and a longitudinally extending bore communicating with said recesses, a hollow tube screw threadedly secured within the recess at one end of the said body portion and having an exteriorly screw threaded portion projecting therefrom, a hollow cylinder immovably journaled within the projecting portion of said hollow tube and terminating at its outer end in a transversely disposed end wall, a cover for said hollow cylinder having its outer end closed, an internally screw threaded bushing disposed in the open inner end of said cover, and having a screw threaded engagement with the said hollow tube, an internally screw threaded bushing positioned within the recess of the said body portion, opposite that end containing the said hollow tube, a cap member, an exteriorly screw threaded shank projecting from said cap and in screwthreaded engagement with said second mentionedbushing, and an elongated stem carried by said cap extending through said shank and the longitudinally extending bore of the said body portion and terminating within said hollow cylinder.

4. A device comprising a tubular body provided at one end with a longitudinally extending tubular portion of reduced diameter, which reduced portion is formed at its distal end with a transverse closure wall constituting a tobacco tamping surface and the bore of which reduced portion comprises a continuation of the body bore, a cover of the same cross-sectional size and shape as the body arranged in abutting relation with and detachably connected to the mentioned end of the body and enclosing the tubular extension, the outer peripheral surface of the cover comprising a lcontiguity of the outer surface of the body,

a cap having one end of the same cross-sectional size and shape as the other end of the body arranged in abutting relation with the said other end of the body and having a detachable connection therewith, and an elongated stem carried by the cap extending through the bore of the body and terminating within the bore of the said reduced portion.

JEROME J. POKORNY. 

